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John Lithgow
Bekend van: ActerenJohn Arthur Lithgow (born October 19, 1945) is an American actor. He studied at Harvard University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art before becoming known for his diverse work on stage and screen. He has received numerous accolades, including six Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Tony Awards, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, four Grammy Awards, four Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a Laurence Olivier Award. Lithgow won two Tony Awards, his first for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his Broadway debut in The Changing Room (1972) and his second for Best Actor in a Musical for the musical Sweet Smell of Success (2002). He was Tony-nominated for Requiem for a Heavyweight (1985), M. Butterfly (1988), and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2005). He has acted in the plays The Columnist (2012), A Delicate Balance (2014), and Hillary and Clinton (2019). He portrayed Roald Dahl in the play Giant on the West End, for which he was nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Actor. He starred as Dick Solomon in the television sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996–2001), winning three Primetime Emmy Awards for Best Actor in a Comedy Series. He received further Primetime Emmy Awards for his performances as Arthur Mitchell in the drama Dexter (2009) and as Winston Churchill in the Netflix drama The Crown (2016–2019). He also starred in HBO's Perry Mason (2020) and FX's The Old Man (2022). On film, he has received two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor nominations for his roles as a transgender ex-football player in The World According to Garp (1982) and a lonely banker in Terms of Endearment (1983). He also acted in All That Jazz (1979), Blow Out (1981), Footloose (1984), Harry and the Hendersons (1987), A Civil Action (1998), Shrek (2001), Kinsey (2004), Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), Love Is Strange (2014), Interstellar (2014), Late Night (2019), Bombshell (2019), Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), and Conclave (2024).
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Interstellar
3rd Rock from the Sun
als Dick Solomon
Killers of the Flower Moon
Shrek
Conclave
Daddy's Home 2
The Old Man
The Accountant
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Spellbound
Pet Sematary
Pitch Perfect 3
Late Night
Bombshell
Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
The Pelican Brief
Cliffhanger
Miss Sloane
Leap Year
als Jack Brady
Ricochet
als Earl Talbott Blake
Terms of Endearment
Footloose
Blow Out
Cabrini
Confessions of a Shopaholic
Twilight Zone: The Movie
This Is 40
The Campaign
Orange County
Prohibition
als Reader / H.L. Mencken (voice)
The Homesman
Raising Cain
The Day After
The Tomorrow Man
2010
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Dreamgirls
Sharper
Shrek 3-D
als Ghost of Farquaad (voice)
A Civil Action
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: The Facts of Life and Diff'rent Strokes
als Philip Drummond
Harry and the Hendersons
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
als James Roosevelt (voice)
The West
als Self
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie
American Cinema
als Self - Host
Memphis Belle
The Rule of Jenny Pen
Beatriz at Dinner
als Doug Strutt
Santa Claus: The Movie
Kinsey
The World According to Garp
My Letter to George
Obsession
The Tuskegee Airmen
als Senator Conyers
Jimpa
als Jimpa
Love Is Strange
Silent Fall
als Dr. Rene Harlinger
On Broadway
als Self
A Good Man in Africa
als Arthur Fanshawe, British High Commissioner
The Big Fix
als Sam Sebastian
The Manhattan Project
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
als Blake Edwards
The Oldest Living Graduate
als Clarence
Princess Caraboo
als Professor Wilkinson
Resting Place
als Maj. Kendall Laird
Redwood Curtain
als Laird Riordan
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
als Leslie Huben
Love, Cheat & Steal
als Paul Harrington
World War II: When Lions Roared
als Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Homegrown
als Malcolm / Robert Stockman
Out Cold
Distant Thunder
als Mark Lambert
Amazing Stories: The Movie II
als John Walters
Best of Enemies
The Pulitzer At 100
als Self
The Jungle Bunch 2: The Great Treasure Quest
als Maurice (voice)
Traveling Man
als Ben Cluett
Officer Buckle and Gloria
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
als Mr. Brunner
Emily @ the Edge of Chaos
als Sir Isaac Newton (voice)
Mister Rogers: It's You I Like
als Self
Art Happens Here with John Lithgow
als Self
Johnny Skidmarks
als Sergeant Larry Skovik